The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-09
a.sssGATEnN AND TAN ALTON


or Injustice Of taxing the white peo>
ole TO educate a class OF pcol ie viii" 7
are too INDECENT and Worthless to
pay their poll tax. More than four
thousand 90 lars are returned as III
coIlectible and about a.! from TIE
rcIored race. Now we make no
distinction bctwCen white or black
\, ho 40 not pay their taxes, the one
is 10 hctteG citizen titan the other
and neither Ought to be tolerated.
A man W ho does not pay bis nnlI
tax ought not te b" allowed to vote,
! and lie ought to fe pat in prison tOI
twelve months or in a chain gaa2
and pat under a master and made to
labor for the pnblic. There ought
! 10 be a law passed by the reXt leg
:s!ature to enable the SheritlS to col,
Iect the poll tax or to pat the de-
nnquents in jail to be Elred out.
This delinquent list mus he gotten
rid of some how or some h0wcl3c 1t
is into!ershlc. The idea Of cduca-
t:ng such classes or the offspring Of
such classes is an Insult and & gross
outrage uptn The honest citizens Of
tie State. To be compelled to educ
te the children Of men w'at 90 not
ppy one dollar towards the support
e the government or towards the
support Of the free schools ,e Ill in~
justice that the goUd people Of the
state ought not TO submit to any
!unyer than convention can be cali
ed to modify the constitution. And
these people had as well be given to
understand once for all that they
have got to pay their poll tan or
leave this country. The sheriff
ought to he allowed twenty per
cent. OF at least ffteel per cent. in
stead Of tive per cent, for collecting
poll tax errt he ought to be given
power to collect or out IN prison, We
have been taxed ever since the war
to educate the negro. Our poo pic
have gone crazy to educate the
negro. We have degraded our man
: ho"d to win him over as a Demo.
crat. Now we are getting tirc1 OF
81! these things. The ne ro as 3
rut. hates the white man from the
hUttom Of his heart. He is our
natural enemy. We have offered
him every induccment t.
become friends. The more we dc
for him the farther he Is from us and
the worse he hates US. Educate him,
, AID as rule he becomes Snlurt
.4icr, worthless citizen, and g
dtHt beat, like some of our own
w"rthless blood. Every time you
educate q man white OF black above
h;~ -tation You RUIN Que of Gods
, rl.atures. Our people have gO.t
ned OH the subject of education. II
Is lime to Call halt. There is some,
trlug else to do in this life beside
..,u~ate. Taxation and education
T al cranks and fools of tue present
!, day. We mean book educ4tiOn. We
Il believe in education, we are strong
! advocate of education. But there are
a good many kinds Of education
D We believe in that kind of educ8ti or
D that MAKES men self-sustaining. We
4 are IN favor Of every man white and
j black educating his offspring il
: books or out Of books, In schOO
: or out of school just as they may see
i fit. But to tax one man to educate
: another mans children when thai
other man don't pay one dollar o
. tax to maintain the government OF
the schools we say is wrong il
prlnclple and wrong in practice
l. And until the leopard can chang
l his spots, the negro will be negro
in spite of al he can do and in spite
Of all we car do. Now why not re
cO9nize these facts? We are willing
for the negro to have every dOlIar o
J. the tax he pays to educate hi,
n chil'lren. In other WORKS eXOner
Y ate him from any of the burdens o
t the State government and eXoner'
/ ate the State from any of his burdens
s The negro tO>day is not OIe degree
: above his station wien slave anG
e not half so happy or half so comfort
e able, He as race IS unfit fer the
!. responsibilities of u fail deveiOpe c
f citizenship. He has no more ide2
, of government or its OBJECTS than {
t rattle-snake has OF the RAYS of the
. sun or ii black hlrd # the Pyramid,
2 of Egypt. VI all of them, SO to